A History of Russian Theatre

A History of Russian Theatre
Author: Robert Leach
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 468
Release: 1999-11-29
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780521432207

A comprehensive history of Russian theatre, written by an international team of experts.

The Soviet Theater

The Soviet Theater
Author: Laurence Senelick
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 781
Release: 2014-06-24
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0300194765

In this monumental work, Laurence Senelick and Sergei Ostrovsky offer a panoramic history of Soviet theater from the Bolshevik Revolution to the eventual collapse of the USSR. Making use of more than eighty years’ worth of archival documentation, the authors celebrate in words and pictures a vital, living art form that remained innovative and exciting, growing, adapting, and flourishing despite harsh, often illogical pressures inflicted upon its creators by a totalitarian government. It is the first comprehensive analysis of the subject ever to be published in the English language.

Historical Dictionary of Russian Theatre

Historical Dictionary of Russian Theatre
Author: Laurence Senelick
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 693
Release: 2015-08-13
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1442249277

A latecomer continually hampered by government control and interference, the Russian theatre seems an unlikely source of innovation and creativity. Yet, by the middle of the nineteenth century, it had given rise to a number of outstanding playwrights and actors, and by the start of the twentieth century, it was in the vanguard of progressive thinking in the realms of directing and design. Its influence throughout the world was pervasive: Nikolai Gogol', Anton Chekhov and Maksim Gor'kii remain staples of repertories in every language, the ideas of Konstantin Stanislavskii, Vsevolod Meierkhol'd and Mikhail Chekhov continue to inspire actors and directors, while designers still draw on the graphics of the World of Art group and the Constructivists. What distinguishes Russian theater from almost any other is the way in which these achievements evolved and survived in ongoing conflict or cooperation with the State. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Russian Theatre covers the history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on individual actors, directors, designers, entrepreneurs, plays, playhouses and institutions, Censorship, Children’s Theater, Émigré Theater, and Shakespeare in Russia. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Russian Theatre.

The Russian Theatre After Stalin

The Russian Theatre After Stalin
Author: Anatoly Smeliansky
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1999-07-08
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780521587945

This is the first book to explore the world of the theatre in Russia after Stalin. Through his work at the Moscow Art Theatre, Anatoly Smeliansky is in a key position to analyse contemporary events on the Russian stage and he combines this first-hand knowledge with valuable archival material, some published here for the first time, to tell a fascinating and important story. Smeliansky chronicles developments from 1953 and the rise of a new Soviet theatre, and moves through the next four decades, highlighting the social and political events which shaped Russian drama and performance. The book also focuses on major directors and practitioners, including Yury Lyubimov, Oleg Yefremov, and Lev Dodin, among others, and contains a chronology, glossary of names, and informative illustrations.

Revolutionary Acts

Revolutionary Acts
Author: Lynn Mally
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2000
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780801437694

During the Russian Revolution and Civil War, amateur theater groups sprang up in cities across the country. Workers, peasants, students, soldiers, and sailors provided entertainment ranging from improvisations to gymnastics and from propaganda sketches to the plays of Chekhov. In Revolutionary Acts, Lynn Mally reconstructs the history of the amateur stage in Soviet Russia from 1917 to the height of the Stalinist purges. Her book illustrates in fascinating detail how Soviet culture was transformed during the new regime's first two decades in power. Of all the arts, theater had a special appeal for mass audiences in Russia, and with the coming of the revolution it took on an important role in the dissemination of the new socialist culture. Mally's analysis of amateur theater as a space where performers, their audiences, and the political authorities came into contact enables her to explore whether this culture emerged spontaneously "from below" or was imposed by the revolutionary elite. She shows that by the late 1920s, Soviet leaders had come to distrust the initiatives of the lower classes, and the amateur theaters fell increasingly under the guidance of artistic professionals. Within a few years, state agencies intervened to homogenize repertoire and performance style, and with the institutionalization of Socialist Realist principles, only those works in a unified Soviet canon were presented.

A History of Russian Cinema

A History of Russian Cinema
Author: Birgit Beumers
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN:

Film emerged in pre-Revolutionary Russia to become the 'most important of all arts' for the new Bolshevik regime and its propaganda machine. This text is a complete history from the beginning of film onwards and presents an engaging narrative of both the industry and its key films in the context of Russia's social and political history.

Women in Russian Theatre

Women in Russian Theatre
Author: Catherine Schuler
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1996
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780415111058

A fascinating feminist counterpoint to the established area of Russian theatre populated by male artists such as Stanislavsky, Chekov and Meyerhold. Schuler focuses upon the extraordinary lives and work of eight Russian actresses.

Chagall and the Artists of the Russian Jewish Theater

Chagall and the Artists of the Russian Jewish Theater
Author: Zvi Y. Gitelman
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Jewish theater
ISBN: 9780300111552

Soviet Jewish theater in a world of moral compromise / Susan Tumarkin Goodman -- The political context of Jewish theater and culture in the Soviet Union / Zvi Gitelman -- Habima and "Biblical theater" / Vladislav Ivanov -- Yiddish constructivism : the art of the Moscow State Yiddish Theater / Jeffrey Veidlinger -- Art and theater / Benjamin Harshav -- Habima and Goset : an illustrated chronicle

Russian Culture and Theatrical Performance in America, 1891-1933

Russian Culture and Theatrical Performance in America, 1891-1933
Author: V. Hohman
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-07-12
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780230113688

Examining the work of impresarios, financiers, and the press as well as the artists themselves, Hohman demonstrates how a variety of Russian theatrical styles were introduced and incorporated into American theatre and dance during the beginning of the twentieth century.

Russian and Soviet Theatre

Russian and Soviet Theatre
Author: Konstantin Rudnitsky
Publisher:
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1988
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780500281956

Conveys the energy and joy of the Russian theatre between about 1900 and 1930.